Down Periscope
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2… From TMDB
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60 of 120 · most liked firstAmazon Prime was like, "Hey you wanna watch Down Periscope?" and I was like, "Do I!" But I'd forgotten that the movie was made before women served aboard USN subs. Want to know more? The Navy has a story about that. Or *had* a story about that. www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
unlabelledView post →New commission: a Muppet version of the film DOWN PERISCOPE featuring Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Scooter, and Dr. Teeth! Mixed media on 9 X 12" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday
unlabelledView post →Zootopia was an instant classic and Mando & Grogu was tons of fun. I always love revisiting the best film about the U.S. Navy with Down Periscope. Y2K was just okay. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday 🟠🟢🔵 letterboxd.com/nattieboop
unlabelledView post →When I first heard about Kelsey Grammer's dick tattoo I was like, wow... this is just like in the 1996 film Down Periscope, where his character did that
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Down Periscope - light military comedy. Not bad. Strangers on a Train - Hitchcock classic The Mummy - Why Universal’s Dark Universe didn’t use this as a film as a model is beyond me. Dust Bunny - A cozy horror version of The Professional.
unlabelledView post →Trying to present the perfect balance of sad that my family will let me watch an old comfort film without trying to force Down Periscope on me again.
unlabelledView post →(I have been a Navy spouse for over a decade and can confirm that Down Periscope captures the general vibes better than the majority of the Serious Military Film Canon.)
unlabelledView post →I used to work with a dude who was on fast attack subs his whole career. Went into the DIB as a lot of nucs do. He told me the most accurate submarine film is “Down Periscope” and I think about that a lot.
unlabelledView post →"You screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong." May 16, 1986: the U.S. Navy is gifted with what might still rank as its best-ever recruiting film, eclipsing such classics as McHale's Navy, The Hunt for Red October, and even Down Periscope.
unlabelledView post →I gotta say the guy whose favorite thing is the movie Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammar and Rob Schneider has other problems.
unlabelledView post →TRIVIA: Mel Brooks offered Kelsey Grammer $3 million to play Dracula in the film. Grammer declined and opted to headline ‘Down Periscope’ instead to the tune of $2.2 million. (Wikipedia) 🖤
unlabelledView post →Heard many times, from probably actual submariners, that the most accurate submarine movie of all time is “Down Periscope”
unlabelledView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Submarine in a film Down Periscope (1996) "With no disrespect to the USS Rust-oleum here but I'd be better off in the Merrimack!"
unlabelledView post →The Hunt For Red October A Few Good Men Apollo 13 A League of Their Own MST3K: The Movie Down Periscope The Blues Brothers
unlabelledView post →So you're saying Down Periscope is the most accurate submarine movie?
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 80s: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 90s: Down Periscope 00s: Speed Racer 10s: Knives Out 20s: Superman ...I am a simple man.
unlabelledView post →#Augustmoviechallenge 8/3 Submarine in a movie. Down Periscope (1996) #moviechallenge #moviesky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Process shots of my recent commission featuring a Muppet version of the film DOWN PERISCOPE: pencils, inks, and watercolors/mixed media.
unlabelledView post →I watched Down Periscope awhile back, while it's not a great movie, it has it moments. I forgot he was in it, but it's his best role. He plays an incredibly unlikable toad of a character that gets beat up a lot and then disappears and forgotten about halfway into the movie.
unlabelledView post →Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. Saw it in the drive in theater. It was a double feature with Down Periscope. It was the first Trek movie I saw in the theater.
unlabelledView post →My #LastFourWatched. I thought I was in the mood for more Frasier humor, but Down Periscope was not it. Three Men and a Baby i remembered liking as a kid. Frozen I didn't remember and my friend wanted me to watch it. The Looney Tunes movie was really fun, in the spirit of my childhood cartoons.
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope is a way more entertaining movie than it has any right to be
unlabelledView post →One of my "I will die on this hill" movie opinions is that Down Periscope contains one of the few truly *great* fart jokes ever committed to film.
unlabelledView post →The OG Judge Dredd film, one of two movies I can think of in which Rob Schneider's presence materially improves the film (the other one is DOWN PERISCOPE). "Eat recycled food! It's good for the environment and OK for you."
unlabelledView post →Clue Titan A.E. Clerks 2 Addams Family Mortal Kombat Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Mad Max Fury Road Batman (any of them) Young Guns Back to the Future (1&3) Indiana Jones The Last Crusade The Untouchables Down Periscope Sinners D&D Honor Among Thieves Bob's Burgers Movie Into the Spider-Verse
unlabelledView post →I am mentally unable to separate this movie from Down Periscope
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope is a way better movie than Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Feel free to drop your own questionable movies that are way better than Zack Snyder’s Justice League
unlabelledView post →My list: Honorable Mention: K-19 Widowmaker (if we can forgive Sean Connery his Russian accent we can forgive Harrison Ford) 3: Run Silent, Run Deep (the granddaddy of sub films) 2: Down Periscope (more fact than fiction) 1: The Hunt For Red October (honestly the movie that started it all for me)
unlabelledView post →Ten movies to get to know me: Ghostbusters Real Genius The Blues Brothers Demolition Man Mission: Impossible MST3K: The Movie Anchorman Down Periscope Chasing Amy Margin Call
unlabelledView post →Watching a video about the nuclear sub USS Toledo and not only is the “big pizza movie night” the worst looking pizza ever, they’re watching Down Periscope with the cursor still visible on the screen.
unlabelledView post →sitting behind her in the movie theater yelling “DOWN PERISCOPE”
unlabelledView post →I love Down Periscope dearly because it was a movie my grandpa showed me when he wasn't supposed to when I was way too young to see it, but I will say it is doing the other films more than a little dirty to say they are equivalent. But god it was so funny to me then.
unlabelledView post →It took nearly 30 years but it looks like we're getting a sequel to "Down Periscope"
unlabelledView post →The movie Down Periscope, but in Starfleet, which I realize is about 50% of the premise for Star Trek: Lower Decks.
unlabelledView post →Or, wait, which movie was Down Periscope and which one was the 90's McHale's Navy? Is this an Armageddon/Deep Impact situation? Or a Dante's Peak/Volcano? Or Anaconda/Lake Placid?
unlabelledView post →I will add - I understand Down Periscope is a 3 star movie at best. But I grew up next to a Navy base and uh... well, it's endearing and nostalgic for me.
unlabelledView post →“I wish somebody had taken me seriously enough to cast me in a war movie that wasn’t ’Down Periscope’ and now I’m angry about it and think my Fraiser persona should catapult me into public office”
unlabelledView post →The Blues Brothers Hot Fuzz Pride & Prejudice (2005) Any Knives Out movie Down Periscope
unlabelledView post →I probably haven’t watch this in 25+ years but I recall enjoying it while knowing it was bad. Dollar store Down Periscope ass movie
unlabelledView post →I LOVE the movie "Down Periscope" (1996), despite two of the leads being pieces of shit - Kelsey Grammer is a climate-change denying, Putin-loving, Trump-supporting, asshole Yet Rob Schnieder is SUCH a colossal pile of human garbage that he *almost* makes Grammer look decent by comparison.
unlabelledView post →Spoke with the great Kelsey Grammer about his new movie Turbulence, memories of Down Periscope, and Avengers: Doomsday. www.comingsoon.net/movies/featu...
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope is the most true to life submarine movie ever made.
unlabelledView post →No one makes the movie Down Periscope starring Kelsey Grammar anymore
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope is THE navy movie for engineering rates.
unlabelledView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? The two Most Accurate submarine movies: Das Boot (1981) and Down Periscope (1996).
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope, if only because Patton Oswalt’s film debut is also a shared credit with Harry Dean Stanton
unlabelledView post →Of all the silly 90s movie to hold up decently well, I wasn't expecting one of them to be Down Periscope.
unlabelledView post →Down Periscope is a funnier movie than Stripes.
unlabelledView post →If you want another submarine movie, might I suggest Down Periscope?
unlabelledView post →Gives me the vibes of "Down Periscope" is submariners favorite submarine movie.
unlabelledView post →He’s always been a performative conservative piece of shit despite Down Periscope being arguably the best movie of all time
unlabelledView post →It's the 30th Anniversary of the film Down Periscope which has the great @pattonoswalt.bsky.social and Toby Huss in the cast. I really hope @vidiots.bsky.social does a screening of it and can get those two great actors out to talk about that movie which is a fun one.
unlabelledView post →Agreed. Didn't know about the rebuff from the Navy. It's a movie. Good grief. I wonder what they think of 'Down Periscope', the submarine spoof with Kelsy Grammer and Lauen Holly!?? Also a wonderful MOVIE!
unlabelledView post →My knowledge of submarines is limited to the film Down Periscope, but it was enough to get me through this one lol. This book is dark and violent and stressful, and very entertaining. I would like the film version now please. #100FathomsBelow #NicholasKaufmann #StevenLKent #Horror #Suspense #Booksky
unlabelledView post →#moviesky #filmsky #navy #movie #DownPeriscope #kelseygrammer I just watched the movie Down Periscope (1996). I've been seeing rating of the film saying it's eh to bad. I think the scores are wrong. I'm not a military movie fan, but this movie was entertaining and funny. It is a comedy after all.
unlabelledView post →Fucking, Down Periscope. What an underrated flick. Do you realize how great a movie has to be to feature Rob Schneider and still be watchable?
unlabelledView post →There’s this thing with Youtube where every once in a while clips from an old movie pop up in the Shorts rotation. I enjoyed when Down Periscope was in the rotation.
unlabelledView post →Oh, he served in the Navy with Kelsey Grammer. No, wait, that was a shitty movie called "Down Periscope." Then again if a movie features Rob Schneider, it's probably redundant to call it "Shitty."
unlabelledView post →I'm not immune to propaganda. Down Periscope is a good movie.
unlabelledView post →Anyways, my favorite submarine movie is Down Periscope because every submariner's served with someone like most of those characters. Das Boot's great too. Crimson Tide's just a missed opportunity. It's like if the Apollo 13 movie had been a dramatic retelling or something. (4/4)
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